[Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> to mind), if Hugs is likely to continue to have compatibility problems
> with GHC, then is there any way an interface similar to that already
> available for WinHugs could be created for GHCi?
>
> If that gets underway, one additional improvement could be to improve
> the REPL at handling declared functions in the REPL itself, as opposed
> to in a separate file

You seem to be asking for GuiHaskell:
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/guihaskell/

I never managed to finish it, or even come close. But it was able to
very basically execute some GHCi/Hugs commands. I'd love it if someone
stole either the code, or the idea, and ran with it.

Thanks

Neil